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Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (Fully Revised and Updated)
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to participate in the great decisions of government. There was, Lippmann brooded, no “intrinsic moral and intellectual virtue to majority rule.” Lippmann’s disenchantment with democracy anticipated the mood of today’s elites. From the top, the public, and the swings of public opinion, appeared irrational and uninformed. The human material out of wh
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crisis of government in
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
The first thing to understand is that the public peace—the sidewalk and street peace—of cities is not kept primarily by the police, necessary as police are. It is kept primarily by an intricate, almost unconscious, network of voluntary controls and standards among the people themselves, and enforced by the people themselves. In some city areas—olde
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government. And only if you
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
cleverest observer. Consider
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals
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United States can’t